Match-making machinery.



No. 758,617. PATBNTED MAY 3, 1904.

A. B. GALKINS.

MATCH MAKING MACHINERY. APPLICATION IQILED JUNE 8,1903. no MODEL. 3 sums-sum 1.

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ALMON B. CALKINS, OF NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN MATCH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MATCH-MAKING MACHINERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,617, dated May 3, 1904. Application filed June 8, 1903. Serial No. 160,519. (No model.)

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7 Be it known that l, ALMON B. CALKINs,acitiwhereby steam or other heating medium may 50 zen of the United States of America,residin'g at be applied to keep the paraiiin therein in a fluid Nutley, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, condition. The tank is supported by a suithave invented certain new and useful Improveable framework comprising legs 3 3. Splintments in Match-Making Machinery, of which carriers 4:, holding a number of splints 5, the following is a specificati0n,reference being projecting downwardly therefrom, are ar- 5 5 had to the accompanying drawings, forming a ranged to travel upon a suitable runway 6 part thereof. over the said tank. Means for applying a I My invention relates to match-making mastep by step movement to the carriers is chinery, and particularly to apparatus therein provided in a cam 7, carried by the main shaft for applying paraffin to splints'prior to the 8, an operating-lever 9, a secondary lever time they are headed with the match composiin engagement therewith, and an operatingtion. pawl 11, arranged to engage the rigid teeth of 5 My invention consists in certain novel desuitable drive-racks 12 of the carriers. Contails of construction and combination of parts tinuous rotary movement of the driving-shaft to be more fully pointed out hereinafter, and 8 will cause a reciprocation of the levers 9 particularly in an improved system for supand 10 and of the operating-pawl 11 to transplying paraffin from a main source of supply mit a step-by-step movement to the carriers.

20 to a plurality of paraffin-baths and in sepa- A shallow tray 12 is arranged within the tank rately-controlled heating means for the main 1 and is adapted to be submerged within the and branch portions ofthe conduit conveying fluid therein.- The tray 12 is provided with a the paraifin from the source of supply to the plurality of slides 13, mounted in slideways several tanks. I in the side walls of the tank 1. Such slide and 5 I will now proceed to describean apparatus slideway connection permits vertical moveembodying my invention and will then point ment of the tray 12, but prevents any other out the novel features in claims. movement with'respect to the said tank. The

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in dentray is provided centrally with a plunger 14, tral vertical longitudinal section through a which passes through a suitable stuffing-box -3 portion of a match-making machine, includ- 15 to the exterior of the tank and is engaged inga paraifin-tankand mechanism for conveyby a yoke or cross-head 16. The' yoke or ing the splints thereover. Fig. 2is aview in cross-head is connected by means of suitable 8o transverse section thereof, the plane of seclinks or connecting-rods17 to operating-arms tion being taken upon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. 18, rigidly mounted upon a cross-shaft 19.

. 35 Fig. 3 is a rear view of a portion of the paraf- An arm 20 is also rigidly secured to the shaft fin-tank, showing particularly the means for 19 and carries the stud or projection 21, which raising and lowering the tray therein. Fig. engages the groove of acam 22, mounted upon 8 5 1 is an enlarged sectional detail view showing a cam-shaft 23. The cam-shaft 23 is driven a heating system employed for the conduit from the main shaft 8 by suitable gearing 24.

4 conveying the paraflin from a source of sup- At every revolution of the cam-shaft 23 the ply. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional View, on an tray 12 is caused to be raised and loweredfrom enlarged scale, through .a portion of theparafa position within the tank and immersed in 9 fin-tank and the tray therein, showing the the liquid paraffin therein to a position above said tray in its downward or submerged pothe level of the tank, as shown in dotted out- 45 sition in full lines and in its raised position in line in Fig. 5. The completion of the upward dotted lines. movement of the tray 12 is so timed with re- In the embodiment of my invention herein spect to the step-by-step movement imparted a tank for holding paraflin is illustrated at l to the carriers that the tray will be in its upbeing used.

permost position while the carriers and splints therein are in their rest positions. When moving to its upper position, the tray will carry with it a small quantity of paraflin, which it will at the extreme upper end of its .movement apply to the lower ends of the splints in the carriers thereabove. By the time the carriers receive their next forward step-by-step movement the tray will have been lowered out of the way of the splints, so as not to impede their free movement. By this construction and arrangement of parts I am enabled to use a straight runway for the splints and to construct the splint-carriers in the form of sectional frames carrying a numberof rows of splints. I am thus enabled to apply the parafiin to a number of splints at the same time, and, further, I am enabled to apply the paraffin to the splints while they are in a rest position.

I supply the tank with parafiin from a suitable source of supply by means of a conduit 26, and I maintain the proper level of the paraflin in the tank by supplying an overflow. This overflow may conveniently be in the form of a groove 25 in the said wall of the tank 1, and a receiver may be arranged beneath the discharge end of the overflow-groove to receive any paraffin which may overflow from the tank. The conduit 26 comprises a set of piping, whereby a number of paraffin-tanks may all be supplied from one source, and for this purpose I provide a main pipe 27 and connect each paraflin-tank therewith by means of individual branch pipes 28, each branch 28 having a horizontal delivery-section 29, in which is arranged a valve 30 to control the supply of material.

As is well known in this art, it is necessary to heat the tanks, reservoirs, and the like which contain the paraflin, together with all the pipe connections, and for this purpose it is usual to either steam-jacket the pipes or vessels or arrange steam heating-pipes therein. In arranging for heating the conduit I have herein shown means for supplying heat to the main pipe 27 by a steam heating-pipe 31 therein and have arranged separate and individual heating means for the branch pipes 28, as shown in detail in Fig. 4, in order that the main pipe may be heated regardless of whether or not any of the tanks connected thereto are shut off and that the heating means for any of the branch pipes may be conveniently cut off when desiredas, for instance, when the tank connected thereto is not For this purpose I have supplied the branch portions 28 of the conduit 26 each with a steam-inlet pipe 32, arranged to receive its steam from a supply-pipe 33, and with a water-discharge or drip pipe 34, provided at its lower end with a drip-valve 35. The steam-supply pipe 33 has a controllingvalve 36 for controlling the amount of steam supplied. By this arrangement I am enabled 1 to supply a number of tanks from the main horizontal pipe 27 and maintain a steam circulation therein regardless of how many of the tanks connected thereto are in use at the time. Each tank then being provided with a branch pipe of the conduit similar to 28, separately heated by an individual circulatingpipe controlled by a valve, as 36, the heating of that portion of the conduit connecting with the individual tanks will be only effected while such tanksare in operation, and when such tanks are out of operation the cooling of paraffin in the branch supply will not affeet the circulation to other tanks in the system. Further, it will be understood that as parafiin solidifies at atmospheric temperature and requires a heat considerably above atmospheric temperature to become liquid the coolmg of the paraflin in any branch will not only not affect the circulation through other parts of the system, but will be a positive advantage, because such solidification will act as a seal and prevent material flowing through such pipes should it become desirable to disconnect the tanks and the parafiin-delivery thereto from the branch supply for purposes of repairs, &c.

It will be understood that I do not desire to be limited only to the precise details of construction and combination of parts as herein shown and described, as they may obviously be varied in wide limits without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and it will further be understood that certain portions of my invention may be used with parts of other construction than herein shown.

What I claim is 1. In match-making machinery, the combination with a paraflin-tank, a tray arranged to be raised and lowered out of and into the paraffin therein, and means for conveying splints over said tank, of a main shaft arranged above the level of the tank, means operated by the said shaft for imparting a step-by-step movement to the splint-conveying means, a cam-shaft 23, gearing 24 connecting the said cam-shaft with the said main shaft, a rock-shaft 19, a lever 20 secured to the rock-shaft and engaging the cam, levers 18 secured to the rockshaft, links 17 on opposite sides of the tank, connected at their upper ends to the said levers 18, a cross-head 16 below the tank, and to which the lower ends of the said levers are connected, a plunger 14 secured to the cross-head at its lower end, and to the said tray at its upper end, said tank provided at its bottom with an orifice and a stufiing-box for the passage of the said plunger.

2. In match-making machinery. the combination with means for supplying a plurality of tanks with paraffin and means for heating same, of branch pipes leading from said paraflin-supplying means, separate and independent heating means for each of said branch pipes, and individual controlling means, independent of means for controlling the first said heating means, for the heating means of each of said branch pipes.

3. 1n match-making machinery, the combination with a para'flEin-tank, and a supplyconduit therefor comprising 'a main and a branch portion connected together, of separate and unconnected heating means for the main and branch portions of the conduit, said heating means controlled separately and independently of each other, substantially as set forth.

4. In match-making machinery, the combination with a main paralfin-supply conduit 27, and a heating-pipe 31 arranged one within the other, of a plurality of independent branch pipes 26 leading from said main conduit, and adapted for connection individually with different paraifin-tanks, a heating-pipe 32 for for each said heating-pipe 32, and adrip-pipe 34 within each said heating-pipe 32, connecting therewith.

ALMON B. CALKINS.

Witnesses:

A. Downs, O. F. CARRINGTON. 

